Western Digital My Book Home Edition (1TB) User Reviews November 28th, 2007 | by Josh Norem
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Average user rating from 39 users |
Nice drive for more advanced users
by Christopher Granz on Jul 30th, 2009 at 4:49 PM:
This 1TB external drive is nice as a backup unit, but as with any hard drive I wouldn't really carry it around on a daily basis, unless I didn't care about a long life time. Also, the only software worth installing is the WD Anywhere Backup. Out of the box this was extremely slow and formatted as FAT32. After installing WD Anywhere Backup you should reformat this to NTFS if you are using Windows as this speeds everything up quite a bit. Also, go to msconfig and turn off the drive monitor. Everything wants to install background processes these days, and I'm annoyed at Western Digital for doing this as well. Great external drive with a little adjustment.
speed
by rui cunha on Jun 18th, 2009 at 4:34 PM:
With my G5 it is as slow as a turtle.
pretty good drive
by PilotX on Feb 9th, 2009 at 2:14 PM:
Out of the box...perfect working...had to format to NTFS...
softwares given are pretty much useless..
light indicator is annoyin when u use the drive..goes un n down ...but thats fine..
its fast in the usb prospect..havent tried esata/firewire...
one small problem...after the drive goes to rest..the power switch on the drive doesnt shut it..i have to remove it from windows manually , n sometimes that doesnt work to..
otherwise this drive is great !
Worst purchase - break in 3 weeks
by Arthur on Jan 28th, 2009 at 3:10 PM:
I bought this drive three weeks ago. Used as extra storage for my book collection collected during last five years. I was caring it around with care so not to damage it with shock from putting bags down etc. Today connected it to PC and it is making strange sound (trying to start to spin, then makes louder motor sound and again tries to spin over and over) and is not recognized nor in my computer nor in management. Seems I have lost all my collection. I m IT person myself and I don't rant about such things, but this piece of device totally pissed me off.
So if you are willing to have extra storage space or backup HDD buy convention hard drive and even if you don't plan to use it actively as external/portable hard drive to share with your friends don't use external drive, there is no point, they crash. Buy large flash instead, at least there is no moving and spinning parts that can break.
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WD Anywhere Backup not reliable
by Nat on Sep 6th, 2009 at 7:20 PM:
WD Anywhere Backup stops constantly, it forgets files even if it says Backup complete!, crashes, gives error reports, refuse to start properly when you reboot your PC and basically, you never feel your files will be backed up safely.
It's better to do things manually: copy files from your C drive to the External drive. It's SLOW but safer.